as in memoir
a history of a person's life
an unauthorized biography of the actor gave him some serious headaches
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Essay The Book of Envy Carl Wilson There are greater singers than Leonard Cohen, and as a new biography by Sylvie Simmons details, few cultural icons who can rival him for caddish behaviour.
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Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
Memories of a Rural Boyhood (2001) This biography focuses on Carter's childhood, set against the Great Depression and a sharecropping economic structure.
—Rachel Raposas, People.com, 30 Dec. 2024
Other treatments attempt biography through the display of letters.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2024
The biography of the 39th president James Earl Carter Jr. was born on October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia.
—Andrea Michelson, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Dec. 2024
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Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
Memories of a Rural Boyhood (2001) This biography focuses on Carter's childhood, set against the Great Depression and a sharecropping economic structure.
—Rachel Raposas, People.com, 30 Dec. 2024
Other treatments attempt biography through the display of letters.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2024
The biography of the 39th president James Earl Carter Jr. was born on October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia.
—Andrea Michelson, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Dec. 2024
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“Biography.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/biography. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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